{"id":30844,"date":"2017-09-18T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=30844"},"modified":"2017-09-17T18:59:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T01:59:22","slug":"newsletter-issue-929-they-wont-buy-a-new-apple-gadget-because-blah-blah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2017\/09\/newsletter-issue-929-they-wont-buy-a-new-apple-gadget-because-blah-blah\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #929: They Won&#8217;t Buy a New Apple Gadget Because Blah Blah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that, whenever new gear is expected from Samsung, say an update to the Galaxy smartphone line, it will often be touted as yet another iPhone killer. Well, except for one blog from a major publication in which the writer claimed that the iPhone X was meant to be a potential Samsung Galaxy killer.<\/p>\n<p>So turnabout is fair play?<\/p>\n<p>Now before I go on, I will certainly not argue anyone\u2019s taste in any tech gadget. There\u2019s lots of product out there. Some of it is really good, some of it is all right, some of it is cheap and not much else. But the quality of such gear is better than it used to be, so it\u2019s really hard to find a clunker. Well, unless you buy a premium smartphone with a battery that might overheat or burst into flame.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! There's more than meets the eye!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/newsletter\/2017\/09\/newsletter-issue-929\/#blah\"><strong>Continue Reading\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that, whenever new gear is expected from Samsung, say an update to the Galaxy smartphone line, it will often be touted as yet another iPhone killer. 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